Hen disappears for a month, comes home with 13 chicks

[tblue37]

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[chouchou]

1. Well..Farmer..told you I was going to get some of that Take-Out-Chicken..

[magicarpet]

2. Lots of eggs coming your way,...

.... not too far down the road.

[applegrove]

3. Why are the chicks all the same age? Did she lay 13 eggs in one day?

I don't think that is a thing that happens.

[NH Ethylene]

4. My hens lay one egg a day.

If she laid one a day for 13 days, she could come home with this many chicks, but there is a big difference in size between a day-old chick and a 13-day-old chick. And 2-week old chicks have quite a few feathers already.

So yeah, this doesn't make sense.

[applegrove]

5. I spent a week on a farm vacation twice as a kid.

I think it was twice. I learnt a whole lot. Including that hens lay an egg a day.

[RobinA]

6. Hens

lay oneish egg a day. They don't start sitting on them until they are all laid. THEN she broods them and each egg develops at the same time.

[NH Ethylene]

7. Ahhhh! The mystery is solved.

That never occurred to me. Just now I Googled it and see this: "In nature, hens lay eggs in a nest until they have a "clutch" of eggs, usually around 8-12, before settling down to incubate them."

[3catwoman3]

8. The change in the tone of voice of the woman is hysterical - a 180 from...

…sweet, gentle and solicitous to WTF!